Thank you very much...
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Topic: Thank you very much...
Posted By: pepsi
Subject: Thank you very much...
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 6:05pm
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For your kind donation... Thank you very much, thank you very, very very much...
Ahhh the memories! Anyone else remember staying up to watch Telethon all those many years ago? I always used to laugh when people donated just to get Judy Bailey and John Hawksby to have a pash!! I wonder what sort of "international celebrities" they'll be able to pull for this one? Telethon is back! KidsCan launches ‘Big Night In’ to benefit Kiwi kids living in poverty It’s been 15 years since New Zealand’s iconic telethon appeared on our TV screens having raised millions of dollars for good causes in its 18 year run. Now KidsCan is launching ‘Big Night In’ in partnership with TV3 to benefit Kiwi kids living in poverty. The idea behind Big Night In is to net at least two million dollars for KidsCan enabling it to make a tangible difference in the lives of 42,000 disadvantaged children across New Zealand. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0809/S00105.htm - Full story |
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 6:41pm
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I remember having sleep overs at friends/in the lounge, bringing the sleeping bags in for a whole night of tv watching (probably fell asleep around 9.00pm!!!) and eating junk food! Ah the memories! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 6:48pm
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I remember them, I remember being sick so as a Brownie I couldn't go and be on TV. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:06pm
| I remember them too |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:08pm
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I used to love telethons. We went to one (not for the whole time though) when I was a kid and it was being hosted in Dunedin. -------------  
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:18pm
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Ye p sleep overs at our house with heaps of lollies and chips n dip in the lounge.
I remember we managed to stay up till like 2am then I woke around 3am to sleep this guy stripping on there (oh the PC now LOL) and it was funny cause he covered his you know whats and you could still see it (and being a teenager that was big thrill LOL) ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:20pm
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Cool!! Bet it won't be the same though. And it feels way longer than 15 years!!!
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:52pm
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OMGOsh I loved telethon and went to the Avalon studios one lol. Donating money and waiting for your name to come on TV. OMGosh we did the stay overs, staying up all night and having loads of lollies! woohoo so excited ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 7:56pm
| woohoo!!! im an 80's girl and i remember them- well enought to know as a kid i loved them! i was on one once putting money into a bucket lol. now to bring back all the other goodies like toptown (was that what it was called?!) great fun. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 8:48pm
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yes it was 'top town' i loved that!
we used to sleep in the lounge all night watching telethon too....scoffing chips, marshmellows, chocolate etc ahhhhhh those were the days eh!  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 9:35pm
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oh god i loved top town...and telethons...i think i paid to have one of the guys off CHiPs take his shirt off....sad but true! and how cool was it when Liza gibbons (off ET) and that guy off coro fell in love during the telethon...nz bought them together and LA tore them apart! LOL!
but going waaaay back -= what was that show from UK that had top town things with flying machines off wharfs and silly games etc each summer???? |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 08 September 2008 at 10:39pm
LOL, Which one?
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 11:55am
eek there was more than one....???? i think they were staged at UK summer camps werent they...come on pepsi surely you can find me a link or youtube or something? 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 2:44pm
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Oh no, I meant which one of the CHIPS guys? haha
I have no idea about the other UK top town thingy? |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 09 September 2008 at 3:59pm
| LOL i think it was eric estrada.....yummmm.......well at least back then he was.... |